FLASHES

Garowe/ Fight­ing be­tween mili­tias in So­ma­lia’s cen­tral Galkayo city killed at least 29 peo­ple and wounded more than 50, of­fi­cials from both sides said yes­ter­day. Mumbai/ Of­fi­cials in west­ern In­dia have set up a spe­cial in­ves­ti­ga­tion team to look into al­le­ga­tions of sex­ual abuse of girls at a board­ing school for in­dige­nous chil­dren af­ter a 10-year-old was re­ported to be preg­nant. Ba­mako/ The Mali town of Banamba, about 100km north of the cap­i­tal Ba­mako, was at­tacked late on Sun­day and 21 prison­ers were freed from jail, Mali’s jus­tice min­is­ter Ma­madou Is­mael Konate said yes­ter­day. Abuja/ Prom­i­nent Nige­rian tel­e­van­ge­list TB Joshua says he has proph­e­sied “that Hi­lary Clin­ton will beat Don­ald Trump” in the bit­terly con­tested US pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. Beirut/ IS has set off five car bombs tar­get­ing US-backed Syr­ian armed groups at­tack­ing Raqqa, a Kur­dish source said yes­ter­day.